Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news to hear a New Dealer recognize what all businessmen know: "that a minimum volume is necessary to break even on fixed expenses." That, he said, was "the significance of the President's quota of an $80,000,000,000 national income. It is in no sense an argument for a permanent unbalancing of the Federal budget...
...taxing," apologized that spending was necessary "because we are not prepared to face the graver alternative -depression and chaos." By the time Harry Hopkins arose (in a rented tuxedo) at Des Moines to address its Economic Club, the U. S. (and by shortwave, Europe, South America) was attuned to hear a speech of historic New Deal appeasement...
...27th President, leaned over grinning amiably from his nearby seat. Afterwards Ohio's Taft said: "It was just like making a speech any place else, except that the acoustics are terrible. I have a pretty good voice but I felt I had to shout to make people hear me." Presently he was chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address, shouted very nicely...
...riots in Burma are of two kinds, arising from the fact that Burmans hate Indians as much as Englishmen. Fortnight ago native Buddhists put on a real riot against Hindu immigrants, and you could hear police sticks chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay. Twenty-four persons were killed. Last summer there were more serious Burman-Indian riots which killed 200 and wounded nearly 1,000. They were caused by: 1) the rifling by Hindus of a sacred pagoda which contained one of Buddha's teeth; 2) the distribution by Hindus of a pamphlet containing passages insulting to Buddha. Burma...
...Carl Engel in 1922). On Wednesday photostat copies were hurriedly made and airmailed to Mr. Toscanini. On Thursday NBC copyists frantically scribbled scripts for the 105 men in the NBC orchestra. On Friday they rushed through a single rehearsal. On Saturday they proudly played it for the world to hear. After all that pother, it turned out to be a diffuse and windy hash which Wagner had had excellent sense to reject...